Kodiakco
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Yesterday afternoon, my wife had to make a run to the local Aldi to pick up a few things. While IN the store a man came up behind her and put his arms around her waist, interlocking his hands. He claimed he knew and worked with me.
My wife and I, over the years have gone over basic self defense and situational awareness while out and about.
My wife KNOWING I didn't work with him, immediately defended herself. She dropped her weight, spun around, punched him in the stomach and back handed him in the neck/lower jaw. He fell backwards on his butt and slid on the floor. He tried to lie that he knew me and my wife countered his explanation.
Unfortunately he ran off before the police arrived. She made a report to the police and while talking to them another women came forward and stated the same guy had approached her in the store asking for money.
An interesting tidbit came out as well. He is targeting women that wear company logos on their shirts. The other woman wore a shirt that had the local FD symbol on it and said he was a firefighter too and knew her husband. My wife was wearing a t-shirt from a local HVAC vendor.
Because of our talks and the basic anti-rape training she took from the police, she was able to identify a threat, react and neutralize the threat quickly.
She choose NOT to be a victim. I am so, so proud of her. I'm also very happy that we sat down many times over the years and discussed situational awareness.
The time to prepare is before something happens not after.
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My wife and I, over the years have gone over basic self defense and situational awareness while out and about.
My wife KNOWING I didn't work with him, immediately defended herself. She dropped her weight, spun around, punched him in the stomach and back handed him in the neck/lower jaw. He fell backwards on his butt and slid on the floor. He tried to lie that he knew me and my wife countered his explanation.
Unfortunately he ran off before the police arrived. She made a report to the police and while talking to them another women came forward and stated the same guy had approached her in the store asking for money.
An interesting tidbit came out as well. He is targeting women that wear company logos on their shirts. The other woman wore a shirt that had the local FD symbol on it and said he was a firefighter too and knew her husband. My wife was wearing a t-shirt from a local HVAC vendor.
Because of our talks and the basic anti-rape training she took from the police, she was able to identify a threat, react and neutralize the threat quickly.
She choose NOT to be a victim. I am so, so proud of her. I'm also very happy that we sat down many times over the years and discussed situational awareness.
The time to prepare is before something happens not after.
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